If she has not returned, I must get help and go back to the forest and search till I find her." "It's far more likely that you will find that she has returned home.

I wish, for my part, that she had never set foot within a dozen miles of Ravenna.

Just think what it would be! But I trust--I trust we may yet be able to induce your uncle to listen to reason." "I'll tell you what, Signor Fortini.

I should not be surprised if it should be found more possible to make the other party hear reason." "What, the lady!" "Yes, the lady--if we set about the matter in the right way." "Well, Signor Ludovico, it may be that you may understand such matters and such people better than I can pretend to do.

It is not improbable.
But my conceptions of the power of persuasion have never risen yet to a belief in the possibility of persuading a dog who has got a lump of butter in his mouth to relinquish it." "Umph! you are not particularly gallant, Signor Giovacchino.